THE RESEARCH FINDINGS 1. Urbanization in peri-urban Bangkok According to Rubennstein (2003) and Pacione (2005), an urbanized area is the area where population growth was found mainly in urban area so that urban population was increased in a faster speed than the average growth rate of the region. Theurban population therefore shared greater proportion and it then became the engine of population growth. For the research, the author defined ùurbanized areaû similarly. To summarize how peri-urban Bangkok became urbanized; the findings on population dynamics, changing economic base and evolution of settlement patterns are presented below. 1.1 Population dynamics and changing level of urbanization 1.1.1 Population growth During the last 15 years, population growth in the outer zone of BMR has increased drastically. Population dynamics in peri-urban Bangkok in 1993 › 2007 was recognized in terms of its rapid growing population with substantial high growth rate which led to increasing population density. Table 1 shows that, in 2007, peri-urban Bangkok shared greater proportion of population as it accommodated 43 percent of population registered in BMR with the average annual growth rate around 2.07 percent, which is higher than the annual rate of population growth of the whole country (0.52 percent annually) and much higher than that of Bangkok Metropolis (0.17 percent).
THE RESEARCH FINDINGS 1. Urbanization in peri-urban Bangkok According to Rubennstein (2003) and Pacione (2005), an urbanized area is the area where population growth was found mainly in urban area so that urban population was increased in a faster speed than the average growth rate of the region. Theurban population therefore shared greater proportion and it then became the engine of population growth. For the research, the author defined ùurbanized areaû similarly. To summarize how peri-urban Bangkok became urbanized; the findings on population dynamics, changing economic base and evolution of settlement patterns are presented below. 1.1 Population dynamics and changing level of urbanization 1.1.1 Population growth During the last 15 years, population growth in the outer zone of BMR has increased drastically. Population dynamics in peri-urban Bangkok in 1993 › 2007 was recognized in terms of its rapid growing population with substantial high growth rate which led to increasing population density. Table 1 shows that, in 2007, peri-urban Bangkok shared greater proportion of population as it accommodated 43 percent of population registered in BMR with the average annual growth rate around 2.07 percent, which is higher than the annual rate of population growth of the whole country (0.52 percent annually) and much higher than that of Bangkok Metropolis (0.17 percent).
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